Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian lineup, in order of ranking, will have John Brownlow, Harvey Jackson, Sam Potter, Jim Shakespeare, Harry Hoffman, and Jim Peck. The Crimson will pin its hopes on Dale Junta, Steve Gottlieb, Larry Sears, Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, and Ian Gianetti...
...more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck's performance drew the headlines, a Washington jury found newspaperman Seymour Peck guilty of contempt of Congress [See PRESS]. Ex-Communist Peck had freely testified to his own past deeds but declined to name other men he had known in the same net. In the end, the courts may decide that Beck's silence is technically less vulnerable to punishment than...
...only 30 minutes, a federal jury in Washington last week found Seymour Peck, 39, a New York Times deskman, guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (TIME, Dec. 10). Peck, who has been kept on by the Times, told the committee that he had been a Communist for 14 years (until 1949), but he refused to name other party members he had known, claiming that it was his right under the First Amendment to do so. Maximum possible sentence: one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...heroine (Lauren Bacall) is a big-city career type who thinks she can run a business (designing clothes) in the daytime and a man (Gregory Peck) at night. This is O.K. with Peck, a fellow who seems to require nothing in life but steaks medium and ear lobes raw, but his wife's high-fashion friends get on his nerves. She replies that his low-life buddies get on her nerves too. Big fight. She wins it easily by invoking the old Hollywood rule of inverse virginity. When she proves that he had another bitch before...
...Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck defensively. "It's inside...